Arkansas Wilderness Areas Offer Rugged Hunting Opportunity

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

USA -(Ammoland.com)- The term “roughing it” can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. With all the modern conveniences available, some hunters wouldn’t be caught dead at deer camp without running water and satellite television to catch the football game playing between morning and afternoon hunts.

That’s not to say that people’s desires for comfort over bravado have changed much in the last few centuries.

According to the National Park Service, one settler in the early 1600s stated, “Wilderness is a dark and dismal place where all manner of wild beasts dash about uncooked.”

“Wilderness” seems to have shifted from those days. Once reserved for unexplored areas along the frontier, the requirements of the term are a bit softer today. The conversion of rural areas to suburbia and continued movement of people to urban areas for jobs and convenient living have transformed people’s idea of wilderness.

To many, any area beyond manicured lawns, fences and asphalt roads warrants the idea of untamed wilds. Many hunters even view much of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and U.S. Forest Service land in Arkansas as something that has been untouched by man …Read the Rest

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